Using a series of model tests, this study investigated the effect of a passive pile on 3D ground deformation around a laterally loaded pile and on that laterally loaded pile's response in sand. The active pile head was subjected to lateral loads, and the passive pile was arranged in front of the active pile. In the model tests, the distance between the two pile centers was set to zero (i.e., a ...

Abstract In the recent work, a field test in which an STK400 steel pipe pile was vertically driven into sea bed conducted Southern Vietnam’s brackish environment. After 5 years of exposure, uniformly corroded immersion zone but two penetrated holes (formed 152° central angle) appeared near low water level. This severe corrosion can not be explained experimentally. Therefore, numerical models ha...

Compared with conventional piles such as the circle pile, the cast-in-place large-diameter pile (PCC pile) has many advantages: the lateral area of PCC pile is larger and the bearing capacity of PCC pile is higher. It is more cost-effective than other piles such as square pile under the same condition. The deformation of the PCC pile is very important for its application. In order to obtain the...

alcohol production from molasses can lead to large amounts of wastewater that cause serious environmental concern. it is characterized with extremely high organic loading rate, high turbidity and dark brown color .composting this kind of wastewater is a biothermal aerobic process that during composting heat generated by the composition of the organic material reduces the moisture content of the...

In order to calculate the ground movement induced by displacement piles driven into horizontal layered strata, an axisymmetric model was built and then the vertical and horizontal ground movement functions were deduced using stochastic medium theory. Results show that the vertical ground movement obeys normal distribution function, while the horizontal ground movement is an exponential function...

Comprehensive field investigations into the axial cyclic loading behaviour of open-steel pipe piles driven and aged in low-to-medium density chalk identify conditions under which is stable, unstable or metastable. Post-cycling monotonic tests confirmed that stable cycling enhanced pile capacity marginally, while cases suffered potentially large losses shaft capacity. Metastable led to intermedi...